GenMassachusetts-L Archives

From:
Subject: [GM-L] The Ship Talbot 1629 brought 2 - 9 gallon barrels of soap to Salem, MA
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:07:37 EST

At first the earliest settlers simply brought a plentiful supply of soap
along with them. The Talbot, a ship chartered by the Massachusetts Bay
Company to carry persons and supplies from England to its colonies at
Naumbeak now known as Salem and Boston, listed among its cargo 2 firkins of
soap. A firkin is an old measurement which was a wooden, hooped barrel of
about nine gallon capacity. John Winthrop, who was to become the first
governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, when writing to his wife in 1630
from Boston included soap in a list of necessities to be brought on her
crossing to the New world.

http://www.alcasoft.com/soapfact/history.html

This thread:

• [GM-L] The Ship Talbot 1629 brought 2 - 9 gallon barrels of soap to Salem, MA by